Great and intriguing question! Well, it would have to be a very small team indeed, unless they make a much larger cup. I'm not sure if it's possible to squash even a single person completely into the cup.

We should petition for a significant expansion in size of the current cup.

DKH

P.S. go to the x-prize cup website and find out there how teams may enter the x-prize cup competition. If you can't find it there ... then there may not be an answer.

P.P.S. don't take the above personally, I am fond of torturing people over their choice of expression - people like me worked for the spanish inquisition y'know.

If you could remove all that space between the individual atoms of a team they could all get inside the cup but they probably wouldnt be able to compete once you did that. Also their mass would be the same so would the cup take the weight?

Ah so many questions, so little time.

_________________A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

What ever happened to Kelly Aerospace? I seem to remember a sci-am article a few years ago showing an "Orient Express" type craft whose nose opened up after a fashion seen in "You Only Live Twice" with upper stages in that.